Yesterday was M.’s 9th birthday, her first since her father died. I tried my best to make it a good day for her, and I think it was. We got through the whole day without her being sad at all, which is good. I, of course, kept thinking about what he was missing, and how […]

Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The Year of Magical Thinking has been on my reading list since it first came out at the end of 2005, and I just hadn’t gotten around to reading it. In looking for books […]

As with most of us, I love the idea of reusing and recycling things that could otherwise just be useless. Pallets have been hugely popular over the years for the sheer variety of things you can do with them, either as a whole or by taking them apart. Reclaimed wood, especially barn wood, is just […]

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End of the weekend update

I finished a new article and submitted it to Helium.com‘s marketplace, but it hasn’t been reviewed yet so I don’t know if it will be. I’m pretty confident that it will. It was a decent piece on a subject with which I have some experience. I haven’t accomplished much else lately though.
M. has been sick on and off for three days. She’s had a cold even longer, but she woke up the night before last with a bad stomach ache that ended with her throwing up a couple of times before she fell back asleep. She was fine all day yesterday, then right before bed got very sick again. She’s only been sick once today, but she’s had a fever all day. Her temp. has been around 102 degrees, and she’s just miserable. She was up at 6:30 this morning, and we were both exhausted. She took her nap around 11, and so did I.
I won’t have much time to write tomorrow beyond getting my 750 words done. I have an appointment at noon, then have to meet Chris after he brings in his company car so he can have my car. I’m dreading that. By the time I get home, it will be nearly time to cook dinner. In any case, I’ll get the 750 done and see if I can do any more other than that.